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Sarah Gillespie and Hopewell Hodges, both PhD candidates in developmental psychology and clinical science in the Institute of Child Development, are two of 100 students within the U.S. and Canada selected to receive a prestigious $25,000 PEO Scholar Award from the PEO Sisterhood.

Ellie Schwartzman is a Developmental Psychology student who also serves as an ICD student worker. We sat down with Ellie to learn a little more about what drives her and how volunteering has played a big role in her undergrad experience.

Ever since high school, Kelsey Mora knew she wanted to be a child life specialist. Her undergrad journey at ICD helped her pursue that goal and now her career path has evolved into private practice.

Kudos to all ICD PhD students on your accomplishments throughout this year. You continue to amaze and inspire us! Here is a selection of self-reported highlights and accomplishments from the academic year of 2023-2024.

In five years, I hope to be working toward a PhD in Psychology with a concentration in Neuropsychology, but I am always open to wherever my passions take me!

This January, the College of Education and Human Development sent a delegation to Cambodia to meet with community members, faculty, and educators. ICD representatives were Assistant Professor Ka I Ip and CDLS Director Sheila Williams Ridge.

A new special issue of the journal Development and Psychopathology inspired by the ICD 2022 Minnesota Symposium is now available. The 42nd Minnesota Symposium focused on the topic of Resilience in Development: Pathways to Multisystem Integration.

Cala Hefferan is a 2021 graduate of the Institute of Child Development's master's program in applied child and adolescent development - child life track. Today, you can find her at the Masonic Institute for the Developing Brain (MIDB), where she is one of the Certified Child Life Specialists (CCLS) and the Primary Facility Dog Handler.

ICD undergrad developmental psychology student Milena Yishak recently returned from a national conference for the Children’s Defense Fund’s (CDF) Black Student Leadership Network (BSLN).

Ann Masten, PhD, Regents Professor in the Institute of Child Development (ICD), has received the 2024 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Psychology for her landmark body of work that identified “ordinary magic” as a contributor to resilience in children. Over the course of Masten’s career in resilience science, which began in the 1970s, she […]